v5.1.0

What's Changed

🚀 Features

• Add ConfigMapKeys & MGMTConfigMapKeys to Telemetry by @AlexFenlon in #7695
• Add Context to logging for JSON and TEXT formats by @AlexFenlon in #7705
• Add request_method to rate-limit Policy by @vepatel in #7832
• Add OpenTelemetry support by @haywoodsh in #7642
• Add OIDC PKCE configuration through Policy by @javorszky in #7765
• Add support for Agent V3 by @AlexFenlon in #7916
• Tiered rate limits with variables by @pdabelf5 in #7884

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Use pod labels as headless selector labels by @pdabelf5 in #7651
• Avoid applying updates on Ingress Controller shutdown by @vepatel in #7691
• Add ; in oidc files by @vepatel in #7748
• Correct namespace for mgmt secrets by @pdabelf5 in #7786
• Update template for custom redirect URI by @vepatel in #7853
• Maintain HeadlessService on upgrade by @vepatel in #7865

📦 Helm Chart

• Release 5.1.0 by @github-actions in #7940

🧪 Tests

• Add retries to test logic by @vepatel in #7643
• Docker image update a48c8357 by @github-actions in #7980

🔨 Maintenance

• Remove community slack notification by @pdabelf5 in #7663
• Add separator to the end of the new release notes by @pdabelf5 in #7676
• Update OIDC files with reference implementation by @vepatel in #7722
• Update ci files to build on oidc conf changes by @vepatel in #7753
• Add oidc refactor commit from ref impl by @vepatel in #7762
• Remove s390x, arm/7 and ppc64le by @AlexFenlon in #7784
• Clean up Agent values file and tests by @AlexFenlon in #7758
• Add pull policy to Minikube local tests by @AlexFenlon in #7759
• Replace archive.builds with .ids in goreleaser by @javorszky in #7801
• Fix markdown linter issues by @jjngx in #7822
• Trigger an image rebuild if the js or conf files change by @pdabelf5 in #7843
• Reference main mend job by @jjngx in #7834
• Run codeql from referenced workflow by @jjngx in #7837
• Update mend and codeql versions to commit at v0.2 by @javorszky in #7851
• Pin NGINX App Protect images to use NGINX Agent V2 by @AlexFenlon in #7858
• Update agent test marker in regression matrix by @vepatel in #7863
• Tidy NGINX PAT usage by @pdabelf5 in #7886
• Add BUILD OS & Arch to rhel system registration host name by @pdabelf5 in #7895
• Move internal docs folder outside of website docs folder by @ADubhlaoich in #7892
• Add dev docs exception by @vepatel in #7908
• Run mend workflow on main and release branches by @jjngx in #7881
• Disable release note generation by @pdabelf5 in #7921
• Pin mvdan/gofumpt in github workflow ci and fix bash variable quoting by @javorszky in #7923
• Remove arm, s390x & ppc64le references by @pdabelf5 in #7924
• Use GITHUB_TOKEN for auto merge by @pdabelf5 in #7928
• Update release process by @pdabelf5 in #7922
• Update Dockerfile syntax version to 1.16 by @pdabelf5 in #7898
• Update references to migrated nginxinc projects by @pdabelf5 in #7936
• Pin OSS version in Dockerfile by @github-actions in #7990

📝 Documentation

• Update the zone-sync ConfigMap key note by @AlexFenlon in #7641
• Update OpenTracing ConfigMap docs by @vepatel in #7652
• Remove extra characters in zone-sync note by @AlexFenlon in #7658
• Update tech spec with supported versions by @vepatel in #7674
• Update the ConfigMap Zone Sync documentation by @ADubhlaoich in #7681
• Adds installation guide for NIC and NGINX App Protect WAF by @javorszky in #7688
• Update all self-referential Release links from production URLs by @ADubhlaoich in #7708
• Removed unused configurations parameters for helm installation by @cdxker in #7729
• Formatted example clone repo command as codeblock by @travisamartin in #7728
• Update docs for watch-secret-namespace by @vepatel in #7744
• Update NIC about page by @vepatel in #7755
• NIC+NAP wafv5 install guide perm fix by @javorszky in #7760
• Add note to the Tech Specs about removal of archs by @AlexFenlon in #7782
• Update AWS LB doc by @vepatel in #7818
• Remove release page links to marketplaces by @ADubhlaoich in #7871
• Remove 3.1.1 from tech specs by @vepatel in #7894
• Remove documentation website files by @ADubhlaoich in #7915

⬆️ Dependencies

• chore(deps): bump github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/marketplacemetering from 1.28.2 to 1.29.0 in the go group by @dependabot in #7647
• chore(deps): bump golang.org/x/net from 0.36.0 to 0.38.0 in the go_modules group by @dependabot in #7666
• Docker image update c1e42434 by @nginx-bot in #7714
• chore(deps): bump the go group across 1 directory with 8 updates by @dependabot in #7711
• chore(deps): bump the go group with 2 updates by @dependabot in #7767
• Docker image update 78a6243e by @nginx-bot in #7788
• chore(deps): bump the go group with 4 updates by @dependabot in #7798
• Update kubernetes version to v1.33.1 in helm schema by @nginx-bot in #7808
• chore(deps): bump the go group with 2 updates by @dependabot in #7824
• Docker image update 5b83e3f7 by @nginx-bot in #7825
• Docker image update 1de54b35 by @nginx-bot in #7855
• chore(deps): bump github.com/gkampitakis/go-snaps from 0.5.11 to 0.5.12 in the go group by @dependabot in #7854
• Update NGINX OSS to 1.27.5 by @pdabelf5 in #7890
• Update go version to 1.24.4 by @pdabelf5 in #7896
• Docker image update 61b675bc by @github-actions in #7888
• Update UBI9 version to 9.6 as 9.5 is no longer updated by @pdabelf5 in #7893
• chore(deps): bump the go group across 1 directory with 5 updates by @dependabot in #7900
• Docker image update 6913142a by @github-actions in #7903
• chore(deps): bump the go group with 3 updates by @dependabot in #7918
• chore(deps): bump the go group with 4 updates by @dependabot in #7926
• Docker image update 1e04714a by @github-actions in #7948
• Docker image update 79d70b3a by @github-actions in #7963
• chore(deps): bump the go group with 2 updates (#7959) by @pdabelf5 in #7964
• Docker image update 8660c8ed by @github-actions in #7997

Other Changes

• Add VersionCheck and Metadata to Agent labels by @AlexFenlon in #7737
• Rename Agent Deployment metadata to match N1C requirements by @AlexFenlon in #7827
• Add control-id label to Agent as required for N1C by @AlexFenlon in #7849
• Add additional validation to otel endpoint by @javorszky in #7909
• Remove duplicate Dockerfile syntax hint by @pdabelf5 in #7933
• add namespaced secret to example by @github-actions in #7942
• update WAFv5 version by @vepatel in #7967

New Contributors

• @y82 made their first contribution in #7667
• @cdxker made their first contribution in #7729

Full Changelog: v5.0.0...v5.1.0

Upgrade

• For NGINX, use the v5.1.0 images from our DockerHub, GitHub Container, Amazon ECR Public Gallery or Quay.io.
• For NGINX Plus, use the v5.1.0 images from the F5 Container registry or build your own image using the v5.1.0 source code.
• For Helm, use version 2.2.0 of the chart.

Resources

• Documentation -- https://docs.nginx.com/nginx-ingress-controller/
• Configuration examples -- https://github.com/nginx/kubernetes-ingress/tree/v5.1.0/examples
• Helm Chart -- https://github.com/nginx/kubernetes-ingress/tree/v5.1.0/deployments/helm-chart
• Operator -- https://github.com/nginx/nginx-ingress-helm-operator